Volume 1: Looking Northwest, Shooting the Sirius Chapter 76: As Many as the Stars Part 1
"You bastard, you are so disgusting!"
A shaman with a bruised nose and face climbed up from the ground, couldn't help but curse, and fell from a height of more than ten feet. Even if they have abilities beyond ordinary people, they still can't withstand it.
With a pop, the cursing head flew up. Chaitino was as fast as lightning. Before the half-dead shamans could recover, he killed them one by one.
His mother is not a celestial being in any way!
After shaking off the dirty blood on the knife, Chai Tiannuo was extremely dissatisfied. If he could have another heavenly being, he would be complete.
"Clean the battlefield and hit the target!"
Zhao Jiujin roared, and the shield formation immediately separated. With one shield, one gun and one crossbow, three people formed a group and began to clean up the corpses on the ground.
Chai Tiannuo sighed repeatedly after watching this. This was the first time he saw regular border troops fighting. He never imagined that they could be so powerful, far beyond his previous knowledge of them.
Especially Zhao Jiujin, I really got to know him again today.
He is affectionate, kind-hearted and upright, and his on-site command ability is unexpectedly strong, as if he is a completely different person.
Hundreds of soldiers carried a large amount of clothing and walked towards the captive Dahua people, offering words of comfort and registering them.
"Old Zhao, your performance today is beyond my expectation!"
Chai Tiannuo came up to him and couldn't help but patted Zhao Jiujin's arm.
Zhao Jijin snorted, glanced sideways at Chai Tiannuo and said:
"If you don't say that someone is a brainless, big foodie, how shameless?"
Chaitino grinned and said:
"That's just the appearance. You, Lao Zhao, have a secret, a big secret!"
Zhao Jiujin's face trembled for three times, and his heart was full of doubts. What does this big mean?
"Don't say it's useless, why don't you unplug these arrows on your body and stick them beautifully?"
Holding a crossbow arrow that shone with cold light, Zhao Jiujin quickly pulled it out.
"Pfft~~"
A stream of blood spattered out.
"...Can you believe that someone said that someone was unintentional?"
Zhao Jijin looked at the meat strips on the barbs of the crossbow arrows in his hands and asked with bared teeth.
"I'll beat you to death for your senselessness!"
After drinking tea, Chai Tiannuo and Zhao Jiujin came to the blood pit, looked at the dead body next to them, and then looked at the internal organs soaked in blood in the pit, while gritting their teeth.
"If you sacrifice a certain compatriot, you will be avenged!"
"What should I do here?"
Chaitino frowned. He found a suspicious point, which was the scent of heaven that he first smelled in the water.
I originally thought it was left by the shaman named Wei Tuo, but now it seems that that idea was wrong.
In the big pit with the smell of blood, there was actually a strong aura of heavenly beings. Chai Tiannuo suddenly remembered what Zhi Lao had said to him when they were in the Peach Blossom Wonderland.
Human beings are the spirits of all things and are born with a lot of spiritual energy. Is it possible that these bastards kill people just to extract spiritual energy?
"Bury it."
Zhao Jijin shook his head:
"At least two thousand people were killed. Now that the weather is hot, it would be better to bury them early."
Chaitino nodded and agreed with this opinion.
"Yingtou, the origin of those people has been investigated clearly."
A Qian President came over, first smiled at Chai Tiannuo, who was covered in arrows, and then continued:
"They are all from Shahe County. Because the king of Shahe County rebelled, they fled to the junction of our northwest and Shahe County. However, they were kidnapped by the royal cavalry and became victims of their magic."
"So that's the case," Chaitino nodded in realization. There were almost eight hundred people who survived, and including those who died, the number must be about three thousand.
Almost all the personnel on the northwest frontier are in various border towns. If there are so many people missing at once, they will definitely be noticed.
Only Shahe County, which was just wiped out some time ago, could have such a large number of refugees.
"Yingtou, what should these people do?"
Mr. Qian couldn't help scratching his head, and Zhao Jiujin waved his hand:
"Take them all back. If the earthen fortress cannot hold them, you can send them to the border town. Our general will never sit idly by."
"We have a small population in the northwest, so having a larger population would only have advantages and no disadvantages."
"But there's more than meets the eye."
Mr. Qian shook his head, saw Zhao Jijin and Chai Tiannuo looking at him in confusion, and hurriedly explained:
"The common people said that they were selected. There are at least tens of thousands of people in the area where they live. They are all firmly controlled by the prairie cavalry. They don't know what the situation is now."
Chai Tiannuo looked at Zhao Jiujin fiercely. Zhao Jiujin's expression suddenly changed and he said in a deep voice:
"Inquire clearly how many people from Wang Ting are there, and tens of thousands of people have been arrested. This matter must be reported to the border town as soon as possible."
"No wonder that after the royal tent arrived at Suolong Pass, it did nothing except send the Golden Spear envoy to swim around. It turned out that he was doing that evil thing here!"
Half an hour later, after the common people's explanations, they finally understood the situation of the settlement. Chai Tiannuo and Zhao Jiujin both gasped.
The people surrounding the settlement were not the Black River Guards, but the Kuldun Guards and the Husang Guards, whom I had never heard of before. Their numbers were indescribably large, like stars in the sky!
"My mother, the grassland royal court is definitely harboring evil intentions!"
Zhao Jijin hit the rock wall with one punch, and then said bitterly:
"Change defense, change defense, change defense!"
"The Yinshan Guards left, and the Black River Guards came, but they secretly came with two more guards. They must be uneasy!"
Chai Tiannuo's heart was also heavy, and he nodded lightly and said:
"Return as soon as possible and report the news. How to respond will be decided by the two gentlemen."
After making up his mind, he stopped delaying and dug a huge pit around the blood pit. He threw his naked body into the pit, buried it in the soil, and built a huge tomb.
Looking at the huge tomb, Chai Tiannuo sighed:
"I wish to be born in the Pure Land in the next life, in the Dharma King's family!"
The large army led more than 800 people to the Tumu Fort. Chai Tiannuo returned to the Taoyuan Valley through the culvert cave, descended from the Stone Mountain, thought for a while, and galloped into the distance.
He wanted to see how many stars the people said were like stars in the sky!
After running wildly, the sky gradually darkened, and after crossing a mound four to five meters high, Chaitino finally saw what a sky full of stars was.
Under the afterglow of the setting sun, the tents were lined up all the way to the horizon, with no end in sight.
Countless smoke rises and turns into billowing thick fog in the sky. Looking at it, it looks like the arrival of an ancient monster!
Chaitino gasped for breath, but his chest was still feeling tight. Such a huge amount simply exceeded his imagination.
"Forget the bad news!"
With a curse, he turned the horse's head, and Chaitino quickly ran into the distance. The disaster in the northwest was coming!
Running wildly all the way, Chaitino quickly caught up with the slow-moving army. At this time, the sky was completely dark and walking became more and more difficult.
"What took so long?"
Zhao Jijin asked curiously, Chai Tiannuo had a frosty face, and after thinking for a long time, he said:
"I went to see the settlement."
Zhao Jiujin was immediately shocked and asked hurriedly:
"How about the number of people? Are they as many as the people said?"
"...I can't tell. The tents are connected to the horizon. The number should be based on ten thousand!"
Zhao Jijin's expression suddenly changed. Looking at Chai Tiannuo's pale face, he held back a few words for a long time:
"The disaster in the northwest is coming!"
After marching all night, everyone knew the news, and the team suddenly became silent.